Claire Cashmore

Claire Cashmore came to Paratriathlon with the experience of four Paralympic Games as a swimmer. She is now a UK Sport Lottery Funded member of the British Paratriathlon Squad and is based in Manchester.

Claire made her Paralympic debut as a 16 year-old at the Athens 2004 Games and won her first gold medal in Rio in 2016 as part of Great Britain's 4x100 Medley Relay team. She also won silver in the SB8 100m Breast stroke in Rio.

After competing in Rio, Cashmore took some time to reflect on her career and decided to give Paratriathlon a go. She was given a place on the UK Sport talent transfer programme and made her major international debut at the ITU Paratriathlon World Championships in Rotterdam in 2017, unfortunately crashing on the bike, but still finishing sixth in a very competitive PTS5 event.

In 2018, she established herself as one of the leading athletes in the PTS5 class, which will be included in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. She finished second behind Lauren Steadman at the 2018 ITU World Championships on the Gold Coast.

Claire was born in Redditch, West Midlands. She was born without a left forearm. She studied linguistics at the University of Leeds, graduating in 2011. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to swimming.